WINONA LAKE — Sectional preview for the Lakeland Christian Academy boys basketball team.

SOUTH WHITLEY – Sectional preview for the Whitko boys basketball team.

AKRON – Sectional preview for the Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball team.

WARSAW – Sectional preview for the Warsaw boys basketball team.

Area boys basketball sectionals are slated to tip-off Tuesday night.

WARSAW – The selections are out for our Ink Free News Boys Basketball All-Area Team.

WARSAW – Warsaw junior guard Kyle Mangas boasts the complete package as our IFN Player of the Year.

VERO BEACH, Fla. – Grace baseball beat Bethel, 3-1, Saturday as part of its spring break road trip.

INDIANAPOLIS – The Penn girls basketball team claimed the Class 4-A state championship Saturday night.

INDIANAPOLIS — A review of Saturday’s IHSAA Boys Swimming and Diving Championships including Logan Brugh’s final swim for Wawasee.

SYRACUSE – Elkhart Central won the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional by one point over Wawasee Saturday afternoon.

Saint Francis and Indiana Wesleyan both posted home wins Saturday in semifinal play of the Crossroads League Tournament.

INDIANAPOLIS – The Argos girls basketball team lost to Jac-Cen-Del 57-39 in the Class 1-A state title game Saturday.

INDIANAPOLIS — Wawasee’s Logan Brugh was the lone local swimmer to break through at state swimming prelims Friday night at IUPUI.

SOUTH WHITLEY – Braxton Linville scored 29 points to lead NorthWood to a 64-50 boys basketball win at Whitko Friday night.

SYRACUSE — It was a sectional warm up for the two county rivals as the visitors left with a 53-35 victory.

BOURBON – Triton closed out its boys basketball regular season in style Friday night, clobbering Knox 53-34 at The Trench.

FORT WAYNE – The No. 6 Warsaw boys basketball team rallied to edge No. 9 Carroll 32-29 Friday night.

WARSAW – The WCHS Athletic Department will have boys basketball sectional tickets on sale on Monday.

MISHAWAKA – The Penn girls basketball team will play for a state championship Saturday night.

MISHAWAKA – The Bethel College men’s basketball team topped Taylor in league tourney play Thursday night.

BOURBONNAIS, ILL. – The IUSB men’s basketball team beat Olivet Nazarene Thursday night in conference tourney action.

AKRON – The Tippecanoe Valley Middle School wrestling team defeated Triton.

GOSHEN – The Grace College men’s basketball team lost in overtime to Goshen in the league tourney Thursday night.

ARGOS – Former Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball coach Gary Teel will lead Argos into the State Finals Saturday.

GOSHEN — It was a hard-fought battle for some when the beloved Redskin chief mascot was pulled from Goshen Community Schools. According to Goshen High School Principal Barry Younghans, the alumni of the schools fought hard to keep their tradition intact and unchanged. Although the topic was brought before the school board for many years, …read more.

SYRACUSE – A preview of the Wawasee Gymnastics Sectional taking place this Saturday.

WARSAW – The Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club held its 2016 Tri-Star Breakfast local competition Feb. 21 at the Baker Youth Club.

WINONA LAKE – Three sisters, including Margaret Mauzy of Warsaw, played in a memorable 3-on-3 basketball game together.

MISHAWAKA – The bad weather has forced the Taylor at Bethel men’s basketball game tonight to be moved to Thursday.

MISHAWAKA – Former Triton star Clay Yeo leads the list of Bethel College basketball players honored by the conference.

WINONA LAKE – The Grace College men’s basketball game in the league tourney tonight at Goshen has been postponed.

MARION – The Bethel College women’s basketball team ended its season with a loss at IWU in the league tournament Tuesday night.

BOURBON – Triton High School has rescheduled its wrestling awards night to March 2.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee will be collecting water for Flint, MI residents at Friday’s game against Tippecanoe Valley.

INDIANAPOLIS – A preview of the IHSAA Boys Swimming State Finals.

WINONA LAKE – A 33-3 run to to open the game propelled Lakeland Christian Academy to a 92-44 boys basketball win Tuesday night over Howe Military.

MISHAWAKA – Five area divers qualified for the IHSAA State Diving Finals this weekend in Indianapolis.

BUTLER — The Wawasee boys basketball team took a loss on the road Tuesday night.

SYRACUSE — The Wawasee gymnastics team did a little fine-tuning Tuesday night with Plymouth in preparation for Saturday’s sectional.

BREMEN – In a battle of old Northern State Conference foes, Triton held on for a 56-47 win at Bremen Tuesday night in boys buckets.

The Warsaw boys basketball team is ranked No. 6 in Class 4-A in this week’s AP poll.

FULTON – Four Triton winter sports athletes were among the Hoosier North Athletic Conference All-Academic.

SOUTH BEND – Individual-game tickets for the 2016 South Bend Cubs season go on sale March 9 beginning at 10 a.m.

AKRON – The Tippecanoe Valley Middle School girls basketball teams were 1-1 in tourney action Monday night.

WINONA LAKE – Warsaw’s Suzan Young has signed a letter of intent to continue her cycling career at Marian University.

WINONA LAKE – The Grace College men’s basketball team will play at Goshen College in a league tourney game Wednesday night.

WINONA LAKE — Former Notre Dame star and Indiana native Luke Zeller will speak at this year’s banquet for the NCCAA Championships at Grace College.

SYRACUSE — WHS will have several events going on during Friday’s varsity basketball game against Tippecanoe Valley.

BOURBON – The Triton Athletic Department will pre-sale boys basketball sectional tickets starting Tuesday.

WINONA LAKE – A trio of players from the Grace College men’s basketball team received league honors Monday.

WINONA LAKE – Sarah Feasby and Brooke Sugg of the Grace College women’s basketball team earned league honors Monday.

FORT WAYNE – Turnstone will host the Midwest Conference Championship for prep and varsity wheelchair basketball teams this weekend.

LEESBURG – The first-ever Leesburg Family Color Run is set for May 14.

WARSAW — The YMCA will host its first Good Friday Breakfast March 25 featuring speaker Hunter Smith and a hot breakfast served by Granite City.

FORT WAYNE – Midwest Xtreme sent a handful of competition teams to the GLCC Speedway Challenge in Fort Wayne and came away with a host of honors.

WARSAW – The WCHS Athletic Department will begin selling boys basketball sectional tickets on Tuesday.

The Warsaw boys basketball team received a bye for sectional action at Elkhart when the IHSAA conducted state tournament pairings on Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS – Sophomore wrestler Christian Mejia of Elkhart Memorial earned a runner-up finish in the State Finals Saturday night.

The Penn and Argos girls basketball teams are headed to the State Finals after winning semistate titles on Saturday.

WARSAW – Carmel handed Warsaw its first boys basketball loss of the season in dramatic fashion Saturday night.

WINONA LAKE – The Grace College men’s basketball program announced an endowed scholarship Saturday to honor legendary coach Jim Kessler.

SOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko won its sixth straight game Saturday night.

The Penn and Argos girls basketball teams both won semistate championships on Saturday.

WINONA LAKE – The Grace College men’s basketball team lost its regular-season finale on Saturday.

MARION – The Grace College track and field team had two athletes earn All-American status at the two-day NCCAA Indoor National Championships.

KENDALLVILLE — The host Knights had a big offensive performance against Wawasee Saturday night.

MIDDLEBURY — Two Warriors punched tickets to state at Saturday’s Northridge Swimming and Diving Sectional Championships.

WARSAW – Warsaw won six events to speed to its ninth straight team title at the Warsaw Boys Swimming Sectional Saturday afternoon.

WINONA LAKE – Grace’s women’s basketball team sent its seniors off in style with a 65-53 win over Mt. Vernon Nazarene on Saturday.

INDIANAPOLIs – Elkhart Memorial and Jimtown each had three winners Friday night in the first round of the IHSAA Wrestling State Finals.

AKRON – Tippecanoe Valley held off a late run by Triton to win, 50-41, Friday night in boys basketball.

Weekly prep basketball picks from IFN sports writer Nick Goralczyk.

Both gymnastics teams from Wawasee and Warsaw picked up road team wins Thursday night.

MIDDLEBURY — A recap from Wawasee’s night at the Northridge Sectional prelims.

WINONA LAKE — The Lakeland Christian boys basketball team had its brief two-game winning streak snapped Thursday night.

WARSAW – The Warsaw boys swim team are in prime position for sectional glory after the prelims settled Thursday night at the Warsaw Boys Swim Sectional.

AKRON – The Tippecanoe Valley Middle School girls basketball teams and wrestling squad competed Wednesday.

SOUTH WHITLEY – The Whitko football program will hold a fundraiser dinner on Feb. 26.

WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue and Vanderbillt will meet in a home-and-home football series starting in 2019.

INDIANAPOLIS – The IHSAA has approved a change to the offsides rulings for boys and girls soccer for the 2016 season.

PIERCETON – Sign-ups for the Pierceton Youth League will end this Saturday.

GOSHEN – All-Northern Lakes Conference lists have been released for girls basketball, girls swimming, boys swimming and wrestling.

SYRACUSE — The Lake City Hoopsters and and Syracuse Police Department played in a charity game to benefit Veenstra Victory.

WINONA LAKE – Grace College upset No. 3 Marian Wednesday night, 64-59, at the MOCC in women’s hoops.

WARSAW – Members of the undefeated Warsaw boys basketball team dominate the All-NLC team for the 2015-16 season.

INDIANAPOLIS – Several area wrestlers were tabbed among the many listed as Academic All-State by the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association.

AKRON – The Tippecanoe Valley Middle School girls basketball teams won two games Tuesday night.

BOURBON – Triton High School still has a few tickets available for the 2016 Triton Hall of Fame Banquet.

BOURBON – Triton’s Hannah Wanemacher was voted Co-Player of the Year and Adam Heckaman was tabbed Coach of the Year in the Hoosier North Athletic Conference girls basketball postseason awards.

FORT WAYNE – The Bethel College men’s basketball team lost at St. Francis 81-70 Tuesday night.

CULVER – The Tippecanoe Valley boys basketball team topped host Culver 65-49 Tuesday night.

Previews for the boys swimming sectionals at Warsaw and Northridge.

TOPEKA — Westview survived a physical game with Wawasee to find victory Tuesday night.

ROCHESTER – Triton added a nice win to its résumé Tuesday night, taking a 62-42 boys basketball win at Rochester.

SOUTH BEND – The South Bend Cubs have released its promotional schedule.

SOUTH BEND – Josh McDaniel hit the game-winning shot to lift LCA to a 56-55 boys basketball win Tuesday night over South Bend Community Baptist.

INDIANAPOLIS – Grace’s men’s basketball team jumped back into fourth place in the Crossroads League with a 68-56 win at Marian on Tuesday.

WARSAW – Warsaw gymnastics hit a season-high point total in a win against Lakeland Tuesday night.

AKRON – The TVMS girls basketball teams went 1-2 in recent action.